Clara only planned to stay in Chelan for the summer before heading back to New York. Then she met Caleb Dawson. Former football star. Small-town favorite. The kind of guy who makes you forget you were ever planning to leave in the first place. But somewhere between late nights at The Family Bean, lake days, and a summer that suddenly feels too short, Clara starts realizing some things are a lot harder to walk away from than you expected.

When Nate Parker comes into her life, Sofie Meyer knew she's ready to open up and love for the first time. A talented artist, she had enrolled herself at NYU as a Fine Arts student, hoping somday to be able to open up her own art gallery and to touch and inspire lives of others. She takes no chances in love, because she was traumatized by her parents' divorce, thinking if she enters into a relationship, it'll only end like her parents'. Then, during a visit to her dad's house at Lexington, NC, during summer break, she met Nate Parker, the man of her dreams. The attraction was mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that Sofie could never had imagined. But neither of them can foresee that something was about to change. Like so many men and women, Sofie must choose between love and going away to follow her dreams. Now, when she finally returns to North Carolina, Sofie will discover how love can transform everyone in ways we never could have imagined.